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SGP Joins
Green Sports Kansas City Event
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SGP will participate in the Kansas City Sports & Sustainability Symposium on Aug. 17. The Symposium is hosted by the Green Sports Alliance. Topics for the one-day event include sustainability focusing on local action across environmental and social fronts. SGP Partnership will participate in the showcase of sponsors, highlighting the role of SGP certified printing facilities can play in the sustainability of sporting events and venues. Read more
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Recertified SGP Facility
since 2011
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Renewed SGP Patrons
since 2014
since 2012
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First Sustainability Champions Selected
SGP is pleased to announce its first SGP Sustainability Champion! This program recognizes SGP Community Members for outstanding efforts in making the environment a better place to work and live. Congratulations to Chris Rose of Shutterfly and Blake Pace of Primex Plastics who share the honor! Read more
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Chris Rose of Shutterfly was nominated by several people, recognizing his work in achieving SGP certification for its Fort Mill, SC facility. "Chris Rose took up the cause for sustainability almost two years ago. He was excited about the challenge of receiving SGP certification, knowing it would take considerable time and effort," said John C. Hindman, Senior Manager for Environmental Health & Safety and Chris’s manager at Shutterfly. "Throughout the process, Chris became very adept at pulling a team together and utilizing all company resources available to him along with SGP telephone consultations, the SGP Impact Tracker and website. Even as our internal EHS resources shifted significant attention to combatting the global pandemic and keeping our employees and partners safe, Chris carried the torch toward SGP certification, which we were able to attain in November 2020. While this initiative involved numerous people on the Shutterfly team, the effort would never have culminated in certification without Chris' monumental drive in leading the work and pulling the right team and resources together."
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Blake Pace of Primex Plastics is the general manager of the Primex Plastics Reedsburg, WI facility. "Blake is a firm believer in responsible manufacturing. Along with renewable energy usage, environmental efforts emphasize energy and efficiency audits, reuse and rework of pallet and packaging materials and proactive freight considerations," said Teri Benning, Primex Plastics in her nomination submission of Blake. "Among many of Blake`s sustainability programs, he assisted in the implementation of smart lighting programs throughout his plant, updating lighting to LED and adding sensors in many locations so that lighting is automatically adjusted based on occupancy. For many years Blake has aided several customers with methods and resources to deal with their plastic waste which has resulted in thousands of pounds of plastic waste staying out of the landfills. He has also implemented policies and procedures to divert hundreds of thousands of pounds of internal reclaim annually from the waste stream. Blake’s strong voice relative to sustainability is apparent in the fact that the president of Primex named him as the chairperson of Primex’s Sustainability Committee. In addition, Blake believes in actively participating in community events including sponsoring Reedsburg’s Concerts in the Park, fundraising for the local nursing home and giving back to our local EMS, Fire and Police Departments."
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Planning for the first Sustainability Academy has started! This year's event will be two 2-hour sessions held on
Nov. 18 and 20 for a total of eight hours of learning.
We are looking for topics and speakers. If you have an idea or presentation, please let us know! We are in the early planning, so any idea is useful.
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Donate to the SGP Foundation
SGP Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing education on sustainable practices for the printing industry and sister organization to SGP. Include SGP Foundation in your corporate giving programs. Make tax-deductible donations. Donate through GuideStar
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SGP Looking for Beta Sites
In April 2021, SGP announced a pilot project to expand its certification program beyond North America. SGP has been successfully holding all audits virtually for more than a year. This method, in combination with the SGP Impact Tracker, allows expansion of the certification program for printers and industry suppliers worldwide. Read more
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Nominate a Sustainability Champion
The SGP Sustainability Champion quarterly award recognizes an SGP Community Member for efforts in making the environment a better place to work and live in. An SGP Sustainability Champion leads by example & shows passion through leadership, activities, environmental stewardship & activism.
For this quarter, nominations must be received by Sept. 15, 2021. The winner will be announced Oct. 30, 2021. Learn more
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Jordan Darragh, PrintReleaf |
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Kristen Thomann, Shutterfly |
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Join the #SustainableFuture Campaign |
Be part of the SGP campaign where members of our community share their thoughts sustainability. SGP will post the quotes on Twitter and LinkedIn as part of our social media content for 2021-2022.
Use our online form to share your thoughts & a photo. Campaign Form
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SGP 2021 Certification Criteria Revision is Open for Review
The SGP Certification Criteria is publicly available for review and comment. The comment period, open for 45 days, seeks to gather input for the public on the revised standards. Draft Revised Criteria
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